Simona Rossi

Simona Rossi (1107-1124) was a princess of the Duchy of Milan.

Biography
Rossi was an unattractive woman from the House of Rossi, which controlled the Duchy of Milan, and was the daughter of the House of Rossi's patriarch. She was unable to find a suitor and was believed to have been a virgin at the time of her young death at the age of seventeen. Rossi was targeted by the Venetian Republic simply because she was a Milanese noblewoman, as well as the fact that she was rude, ugly, and unattractive.

Death
Rossi's personal room was infiltrated by Raynucio Bianchetti, a member of the Assassins Order, who carried with him a poisonous snake that he could place under her blankets and kill Rossi. Rossi placed the snake carefully and it slithered up the matress and under Rossi's blankets. As she felt the snake, she screamed, and Bianchetti fled as she died of snakebite.